Category: Early Cancer Updates
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8 months since chemo.
So here I am 8 months after chemo and a week shy of 1 year since diagnosis. Today to celebrate I got my hair colored! Starting to feel more normal. I don’t have anything against my natural hair color…but getting rid of the gray and lighting it up a bit makes me feel better. Over…
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One year ago….
I really hope I don’t do this forever. Tomorrow is a really big day. First, my one and only child was born 26 years ago tomorrow. I hope he has a most wonderful day tomorrow. I miss not being there. It does make me happy that he has started his own life and is starting…
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Random Scattered Thoughts
I know it’s a super original header. But at this point, it’s good for me. I’ve been fighting a bit of a cold, lack of motivation and depression the last few weeks. Just really have no desire to do much other than sit and watch tv. My great accomplishment thus far has been to finally…
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Here we go….
I was sitting here thinking today….1 year ago was my last day in Colorado before the move to finally be with my husband in Montana. It was a year ago that I had a wonderful dinner with my son and we spent the evening painting the master bedroom and doing the final packing up of…
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First Change
RANT! RANT! RANT! First. I know I say this a lot and I know I say this a lot and I never quite follow through. I get sucked into the monster that is Facebook. The problem is I don’t want to unfriend anyone because I do like the people or at least find the people…
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What Next
I’ve been sitting here the last few days trying to figure out what my next steps are. What exactly it is I need to do and what I want to do. I was told at one point to look at this as having a blank slate. So I sit here staring at a blank slate…
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Another Year
Monday was my 47th birthday. I am glad to have made it this far. Thoughts are all over the place. My step father was 47 when he died of pancreatic cancer. So I feel pretty lucky. I think I’ve been a little blue the last week. One would think that I would be the complete…
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Oh The People
I’ve been swimming. The other day I was in the locker room getting changed and these 2 older women came in. One looked at me then looked at her friend and said “is the the WOMENS locker room? I thought this was the women’s locker room.” and then looked at me again while her friend…
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Progress
My physical therapist told me to start swimming. So I’m back in the pool. I’m up to 14 laps. (25 meter pool) They are slow laps but they are laps. And I stop and stretch a bit or tread water at the end of each one for 30 seconds. But it has felt really good…
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Fa La La La La
Oh the holidays. I’ve finally recovered from Thanksgiving. I had my son and his fiance here for a week. So much excitement and so much emotion and so much cooking and cleaning. I took a week off from the gym because I was just exhausted. Had about enough energy to cook thanksgiving and stay up…
